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In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. By The Yousof Azizi Defense Committee, Popular Resistance Yousof Azizi, a final-year PhD student in public policy at the University of Virginia, was arrested on the morning of Tuesday, April 14, in front of his home by ICE forces, and up to this moment he has not been allowed to meet with his lawyer. ICE officials have informed him…

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I’ve often said that my favorite Chief Justice Roberts opinions are his dissent. Why? I know he actually believes what he is writing. His majority opinions are always so guarded, as he is trying to keep the Court together and maintain the “institutionalist” credo. But the dissents are authentic. This was especially true in Roberts’s solo dissent in Uzuegbunam. The same rule applies to Roberts’s internal communications that are not meant for public consumption. Unfortunately, we only find out about these internal communiques through leaks. Most recently, I was impressed when Roberts told Judge Boasberg to chill out. (Query whether…

To make Steal This Story, Please! Co-directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin spent about three years wearing out the proverbial shoe leather tailing Amy Goodman, that journalistic scourge of the status quo, for their documentary about her and the daily Pacific Radio and TV program she hosts. As Democracy Now! – which touts itself as […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can’t read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. Ed Rampell…

The Dobbs leak and the Clean Power Plan leak are very different. The Dobbs leak was designed to impact a pending case. Whether you believe that a conservative leaked the opinion to lock down the votes, or that a liberal leaked the opinion to shift the votes, all roads leads to an attempt to influence the outcome. But the Clean Power Plan leak serves a very different purpose. The case was decided a decade ago. The actual legal issues are no longer important. The Clean Power Plan is long since dead. Rather, the ostensible purpose of this leak is to attack the…

It’s been more than 50 years since an American was crowned the world champion of chess.  The Chicago-born Bobby Fischer held the distinction between 1972 and 1975 after he defeated the Russian Boris Spassky in what is still called the “Match of the Century.” The championship, played in Reykjavík, Iceland, occurred at the height of the Cold War and served as a de facto intellectual battlefield between the two great powers. But the ’72 title fight isn’t only remembered for the games themselves. The matchup is also remembered for the way Fischer acted in the lead up and during the…

The intensity and apparent aims of America’s war with Iran have shifted quite a few times since the first day of shock and awe in late February to the current ceasefire and negotiations. After an opening round of peace talks in Islamabad last weekend, President Donald Trump announced a plan to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, which the U.S. Navy implemented days later.  On Friday, Iran announced it would reopen the strait for the remaining few days of the ceasefire but would require ships to travel on a pre-approved route in coordination with the Islamic Republic. If Trump can get…

I remember the evening of February 9, 2016 very clearly. I had just arrived at Bush Intercontinental Airport, like I had hundreds of times before. It was around 5:00 pm. I had just cleared security in Terminal C, and was turning left near Gate C42 (yes, I know all the gates by heart). I looked at my phone and saw a tweet that the Supreme Court had granted an emergency stay order in the Clean Power Plan. I remember being surprised. I could not recall the Supreme Court ever granting a stay while a case was pending before the Supreme…

War is the most unrestrained expression of humanity’s destructive capacity, a setting where order disintegrates, moral boundaries are tested, and life is reduced to its most vulnerable state. Medicine, by contrast, stands as a deliberate act of resistance against that collapse, a disciplined and unwavering commitment to preserve life even when surrounded by death. Despite these opposing identities, war and medicine have remained deeply intertwined across history, not by design, but by inevitability. Again and again, the battlefield has served as medicine’s most unforgiving classroom, stripping away theory and exposing only what truly works under pressure. In that environment, progress…

From yesterday’s decision by Judge Jorge Alonso (N.D. Ill.) in Rosado v. Bondi: Plaintiff Kassandra Rosado runs a Facebook group called “ICE Sightings – Chicagoland” and Plaintiff Kreisau Group runs a phone application called “Eyes Up.” Both allow users to post videos and information regarding ICE activity. Plaintiffs allege that Defendants coerced Facebook into disabling the Chicagoland Facebook group and coerced Apple into removing Eyes Up. Plaintiffs contend that this violated their First Amendment rights …. Plaintiff Kassandra Rosado created “ICE Sightings – Chicagoland” in January 2025 as a Facebook group for people to post videos and information regarding ICE…